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In Summer Shade. By Mary E. Mann. 3 vols. (Henry

and Co.)—Miss Mann certainly gives us here an effective tale. Mary's self-devotion on her sister's behalf makes a powerful incident, and leads up to a denouement of much dramatic force. One may won- der, indeed, how such a nature as this very admirable woman could have been developed out of the conditions of her birth, belongings, and circumstances ; but the novelist must be allowed such liberties of imagination. The rector and his brother are carefully drawn, and with no little subtlety of touch. Altogether, this is a book of merit considerably above the average.